20-22 March 2017, Aimsun foundation course, Amsterdam

This three-day hands-on Aimsun foundation course will be held in central Amsterdam, Monday 20th March to Wednesday 22nd March.

The course is aimed at both new users and users who wish to refresh or extend their skills in microscopic and mesoscopic simulations.

Course Contents

Morning session: 09:15 – 12:45 (including a 15-min break)
Afternoon session: 13:30 – 18:00 (including a 15-min break)

Editing a model (5 h)

• Geometry, traffic demand, signals, public transport

Managing scenarios (1 h)

• Dynamic scenarios, experiments and replications
• Revisions

Outputs (1 h 30 min)

• Time series, thematic maps

Outputs (continued) (30 min)

• Scenario comparison

Traffic management (4 h)

• Traffic management actions
• Modelling incidents and mitigation strategies
• Modelling turn restrictions, reversible lanes, and other scheduled events

Dynamic traffic assignment (3 h)

• Dynamic traffic assignment framework
• Cost functions
• Stochastic route choice algorithm and parameters
• Dynamic user equilibrium algorithm and parameters
• Practical applications

Microscopic network loading (3 h 45 min)

• Microscopic vehicle behaviour
• Calibration of a microscopic model

Mesoscopic and hybrid network loading (3 h 45 min)

• Mesoscopic vehicle behaviour
• Calibration of a mesoscopic model
• Guidelines for hybrid microscopic-mesoscopic simulation

Prices and registration

If you would like to attend this Aimsun training session, then please contact info@aimsun.com as quickly as possible and we will send you prices and registration details.